Hello Dreamer,
On 10 Apr 14 11:26, Dreamer wrote to Poindexter Fortran:
Dr>> Anyhow, anyone else have any experience with Linux EFI installs?
Dr>> Perhaps my experience was just an example of the three P's?
PF>> Check the BIOS, there may be an option to toggle between legacy
PF>> boot and EFI. All of my recent Dells (XPS 13/14/15, Latitude
PF>> E7240/E7440, and the Optiplex 9020 desktop) have that option.
Dr> True, but I wasn't talking about a BIOS install. I could have done a
Dr> legacy install, but I wanted to keep Windows 8, which meant keeping
Dr> the GPT partition layout instead of a DOS layout, which means no
Dr> standard install.
Dr> Only reason I'm keeping Win8 is...well, you never know when something
Dr> could come in handy down the road, and why trash something that
Dr> expensive? :P
The last time I did a dual boot I just chose to remove the 100mb Windows boot
partition and use grub instead. Installing grub immediately saw I had a Windows
partition and added it to the configuration file so I had a choice to boot into
Linux or Windows at bootup.
I don't really remember doing anything differently. You just either have to
completely remove the Windows boot partition and use a Linux bootloader (new
partition), or jump through a bunch of hoops in order to use the Windows boot
partition - which obviously I didn't care to do.
Then when I wanted to remove the Linux partition from my machine, I had to
remove the boot partition which contained grub and the Linux partition with
gparted. After that, I simply put the Asus recovery CD in and chose an option
to fix the Windows boot partition. It added it right back in and everything was
back to normal.
Not sure if it makes a difference or not, but my experience was with Windows 7
though. I've never touched Win8 on my machines here after trying it (and
disliking it) on other people's machines. But it is 64bit Windows 7 on pretty
new hardware (i5), so I don't think they've changed anything recently.. have
they?
Regards,
Nick
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